Our Pope Benedict XVI recieved the visit of the King of Saudie Arabia in the Vatican, some times ago. There was a mutual exchange of gifts between the king and the Pope. The Pope offered to the Muslim an icon, and the Muslim offered to the Holy Father a cimatar.
This exchange of gifts resumes the tale of two religions which worship two different gods. One is the God of Love, and the other is the god of Hate.
The Pope later made the following statement (source: San Francisco Catholic): "Islam uses the sword to convert". Our Pope could be made a martyr for such a truthful statement, and perhaps he might be in the future.
As Catholics we must remain truthful to the words of Christ, which is to love our persecutors, and tend the other cheek. There is no other way if we wish to remain with Jesus Christ.
There will be many Christian martyrs in the (likely) very near future. May be God will show His mercy if enought of us love Christ. God is good and may simply send His angel to save us from extinction, in fact He will.
As for the blasphemous art, the "Crucifix in a Jar of Urine" has set a precedent that has been cowardly accepted. There is however some resistance. For example the Men of St. Joseph organized a vigorous protest in Oakland against a grotesque painting representing Our Lady of Guadalupe in a swim-suit. Or again, I saw in a commercial art gallery of San Francisco a set of neo-religious artifacts that mocked the Holy Scriptures: As its main display, a mahogany cross was incrusted with anti-depressant, and anti-hallugicenic medical pills, implying that the scribes and prophets, who had written the Bible, had been in need of medical treatment. I pointed the blasphemic nature of this display to the merchant, and then with a few faithful we prayed. The entire set of neo-religious artifacts disapeared at once, and was replaced with less provocative art-work.
Islam is a religion of the devil. There is no other way to say it. The first act of Islam was the pillaging of an innocent passing caravan in Arabia. This was an act of theft and murder. The Prophet Muhammad, who never performed a single miracle, nor a single resurrection, and who even was wounded in a battle that he had lost in spite of having "prophecized" to win, had confessed that often he considered ѕυιcιdє after some of the visitation of an angel named Gibrel (this is not Gabriel). I personally can name someone who once saw a holy angel during a brief instant. This person will never be the same after this brief apparition. This person became troubled afterward in realizing what the purity of heaven is, however this person never once considered ѕυιcιdє, and on the contrary got a powerful drive for incessant prayers of the Holy Rosary towards Jesus Christ and His mother the Blessed Virgin Mary. for the simple reason that heaven may be reached throught the love for Jesus and Mary.
Islam demands human sacrifices. The most recent examples come from the ѕυιcιdє-bombers, which is the antithesis of the commandement of the angel of God who stopped Abraham from imolating his son Isaac. Islam claims that there are the sons of Abraham, but it contradicts itself in proning the imolation of its own sons.